eating babies

1. The real thesis he's trying to get across is to show that what is going on then in ireland is not the way things should be going. He's trying to show how they need to do something soon to fix the way of life or eventually things will get out of hand and something like eating children will happen.

2.The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children,

there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born.

3. I think that the reader starts to realize that the author is ironic after the proposal in paragraph 10.

4. The rich are deffinantly pointed out as being the problem, but they are also putting blame on the english. I think that the author wants to show that the irish are also to blame.

5. I think that the essay strictly functions as a satirical one.

6. The last paragraph is suppossed to show that this was just an idea, and that if this article was about an actual way to try and help Ireland, he wouldn't try to help it. It's to show that most people who have good ideas of ways to improve on what's going on in society, aren't willing to try and help it. They're only willing to voice their ideas.

7. I think that he tries to relate and give ways to help the poor which appeals to them. I haven't had a labor job before and I'm fairly compliant when I'm working at my job.

8. In all honesty, I don't think that it could be done. I think that some people might be willing to do it, or even agree with it, but i don't think it could be done. There is a special bond between a mother and a child that nothing can compare to. Mother's who give their children up for adoption, even when their child is only a day old have seperation  problems. If a mother had to raise her child for an entire year, only to be slaughtered, then that mother is not human. My mom cries when I go to camp for a week, how would she have been able to give me up knowing that I was to die? And the French are stupid. Enough said about that.